DealBook Online

By CHRIS V. NICHOLSON and JACK EWING

Published: April 7, 2011

BLOCKBUSTER WINNER After a bankruptcy auction that extended into the early hours on Wednesday, Dish Network said it was the winner of Blockbuster's assets, with a bid valued at $320 million.

Dish, the satellite television company, is set to pay roughly $228 million in cash, after accounting for certain adjustments at closing. Dish's bid was chosen over those of Carl C. Icahn, left, a large Blockbuster investor, and a consortium of creditors that included Monarch Alternative Capital.

OFFICIAL TOGNUM BID Daimler and Rolls-Royce officially made their joint offer for the engine maker Tognum on Wednesday, bidding 24 euros a share. The deal values Tognum at 3.2 billion euros ($4.6 billion).

Tognum management has suggested that shareholders who accept the offer will retain the right to a 50 euro cent dividend for 2010 if the deal is approved at the shareholder meeting on May 11. That would effectively make the bid worth 24.50 euros a share.

CHRIS V. NICHOLSON

GERMAN PAYBACK The German government will soon get back a big portion of the money it used to rescue the country's banks two years ago, after Commerzbank said Wednesday that it would repay most of its bailout by June.

Commerzbank said it would sell new shares to help repay 14.3 billion euros, or $20.3 billion, of the 16.2 billion euros in capital that it received from the German government in 2009. That new sum amounts to almost half the 29 billion euros that Berlin pumped into banks during the height of the financial crisis.

JACK EWING

RIO TINTO'S OFFER Rio Tinto said Wednesday that shareholders of 49.49 percent of Riversdale Mining had accepted its tender offer, which will be extended by two weeks.

That surpasses the 47 percent target that Rio had set for itself and ensures that it will pay 16.50 Australian dollars a share.